The Comedies of Aristophanes: The peace. The birds
Title | The Comedies of Aristophanes: The peace. The birds PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1913 |
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The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Peace ; The Birds
Title | The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Peace ; The Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
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Release | 1902 |
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The Comedies of Aristophanes: The peace. The birds
Title | The Comedies of Aristophanes: The peace. The birds PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1906 |
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Birds and Other Plays
Title | Birds and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780192824080 |
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire,sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens occupythe Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city. The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is Aristophanes' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, thegod of wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified. This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an illuminating introduction including play by play analysis anddetailed notes.
The Peace. The Birds
Title | The Peace. The Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Greek drama (Comedy) |
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The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, and Birds
Title | The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, and Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Athens (Greece) |
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Library has volume 1.
Three Comedies
Title | Three Comedies PDF eBook |
Author | Aristophanes |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780472061532 |
A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.